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Pushing It Along. Last week's tributes were little more than Kennedy had been getting all along the campaign trail. As his bandwagon gathered headway, the press sometimes even appeared to help push it along.* One reason that Kennedy looked so good in the crucial Wisconsin and West Virginia primaries was that the Kennedy camp's shrewdly calculated pre-primary misgivings had been widely heralded in the press, adding immeasurable luster to the ultimate victories...
...Sample: the New York Times front-paged a story from California by William H. Lawrence describing a tactic with which Johnson forces hoped to stop the Kennedy bandwagon psychology at the convention by pushing through a new rule that would prevent delegations from changing their vote after the initial roll call of states. The story was obviously made up out of whole cloth, as the Times found out next day when they had Lyndon Johnson to lunch. Said Johnson, as later reported in the Times: "Although I spent a good deal of the day with New York Times reporters...
...nomination, Kennedy ran in seven, piled up majorities in all of them (only two of them, Wisconsin and West Virginia, were real contests). His showing proved that his Roman Catholicism was an asset rather than a liability, helped his hardboiled campaign to persuade Democratic politicians to climb aboard his bandwagon lest they get left behind...
...Johnson moved westward toward Los Angeles, he kept trying to fight Kennedy's phenomenal bandwagon propaganda. At his press conference at the Chicago airport, Johnson pounced on Bobby Kennedy's prediction that the outcome would be decided by noon Monday, five hours before the convention's official opening. "This will come as a great surprise to the delegates," rumbled Johnson. "Most of them thought they were going to Los Angeles to confer with their fellow Democrats to help select the next President." In San Francisco, his last stop before Los Angeles, Johnson noted derisively that Kennedy first-ballot delegate claims...
...Little Grey. Kennedy was reassured about everything when he read the bandwagon headlines at the family summer home in Hyannisport, Mass., between leisurely strolls along the beach and turns in the family motor cruiser. "Boy, this is for me," he boomed over the phone to a friend. "Let those other guys run around out there." By Friday night it was time for him, too, to head "out there." As he left home, the Irish maids of wealthy Hyannisport neighbors lined up across the street to give him a sendoff. From Hyannis, he and Wife Jackie flew to New York...